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The IET Institute for Energy Technology of the HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil celebrated the inauguration of their new research plant on October the 4th 2018. The aim of this new plant is to increase the efficiency of the Power-to-Methane technology in order to reduce...

The 18th of May 2018, Dr. Jan van Herle (EPFL) presented the activity of the Group of Energy Materials (GEM) and the PENTAGON P2G idea at the Gaznat WEC-Global Gas Centre Conference. The intervention, titled “Clean gas conversion and storage with solid oxide technology: progress...

PENTAGON project was present the last week at Sustainable Places 2018, an international annual event organized by a series of conferences with the aim to gather the main stakeholders who play a key role in the greatest challenge that our societies and their urban planners...

ThePENTAGON project is near the end of its first year of life. The main activity for the partners are focussed is the modeling phase of the pilot’s system.

The modeling phase keeps in consideration the buildings energy consumptions and all the systems which use energy at building and district level. The electrical and the thermal networks connect BGCBC buildings at the energy plants, in particular, the district heating networks connect the building with the Energy Centre, where the thermal energy is produced by three main type of systems: a CHP, two biomass boilers and four natural gas boilers. The collection of data and system parameters, characterize the behavior of each single building model and in consequence the entire district model.

The PENTAGON partners involved in the Work Package 5, met in Blaenau Gwent (project pilot) on the day of 12th September with the common aim to define the fundamental parameters for the modeling activities.
Exergy, as project coordinator, has driven the meeting that saw the participation of BGBC, Cardiff University, Tractebel and R2M Solution.
The discussion about the characterization of the pilot’s buildings and about the Buildings Management System has considered the main sensors installed at the energy plants and into the connected buildings.

The results of the meeting are summarised in a list of sensors and meters to install at the energy plants, necessary to implement the data acquisition campaign and to analyze the potential flexibility of the systems.